Nippon Ham vs Rakuten @ Kurashiki - players from each team and two umpires spent about fifteen minutes collecting donations before the game. From Rakuten: Kazuo Matsui, Teppei, Akihisa Makida, and Kensuke Uchimura. From Nippon Ham: Atsunori Inaba, Shinya Tsuruoka, and Kensuke Tanaka. Donations will be sent to organizations in Miyagi, Iwate, and Fukushima representing children that were orphaned by the Tohoku Earthquake. [Nikkan Sports, Daily Sports]

Seibu vs Yokohama @ Yokohama Stadium - managers from both teams and about fifty players collected donations before the game. Players gave fans that donated money high-fives. After spending about twenty minutes collecting donations, Kiyoshi Nakahata took off his cap, bowed, and thanked fans for their contributions. [Nikkan Sports, Daily Sports] Nakahata also took the mic and made a speech in front of home plate before the start of the game.

The Swallows announced that the player's group will donate 3,262,948 yen to relief efforts in northern Japan the Japanese Red Cross Society. The amount includes the 2,372,948 yen they raised through a charity auction they held in February and 890,000 yen they raised during Fan Appreciation day last year. [Sanspo, Nikkan Sports]

The Buffaloes announced today that they will be selling a limited number of special Ganbaro Higashi Nihon t-shirts between 7/8 and 7/31. The players will also wear the t-shirts during pre-game practices on 7/16 and 7/17 (vs Rakuten) and 8/6 and 8/7 (vs Lotte).

The t-shirts will be sold for 1,800 yen and a portion of the sales will be donated to relief / reconstruction efforts in northern Japan.

Chunichi announced today that they'll try to cut back a little more on energy use at Nagoya Dome, beginning on 7/5 (vs Hanshin). Amongst some of the things they'll be doing: opening up the shutters in the roof during visiting team practices (the Dragons have been doing this for their practices since earlier this month); and attempting to shutout the warm air from the outside by adding cloth screens to four entry gates.

Hiroshima Carp

Beginning on 7/1, the Carp plan on conserving energy by taking on a more flexible approach to their lighting system during night games; using fewer lights during night games; and adjusting thermostats for air-conditioning units used by various staff and personnel.

Softbank Hawks

The Hawks announced today that they'll try to reduce energy consumption by about 5% during weekday night games at Yahoo Dome between 7/1 and 8/31. They try to do this by using fewer ceiling lights (from 90 to 54), turning off some of the air conditioning systems (from 14 to 10), and turning off some of the lights in seat areas. According to an unnamed club source, the team has already tested the configuration during practices at Yahoo Dome on 6/22 and 6/24.

Orix Buffaloes

The Buffaloes announced today that beginning on 7/1, they'll use power generators at Kyocera Dome in order to cut back on energy use by about 10%. They will also stop lighting Kyocera Dome up (outdoor lights).

- Turn off unnecessary lighting (60%)
- Dim the big screen in the outfield to 40% brightness
- Set thermostats to 28 degrees Celsius
- Turn off all air-conditioning systems in the stadium offices between 6pm and 8pm.

Doing all this should allow the Eagles to decrease energy consumption by around 15%.